Director - IT

Job Responsibilities

- Lead and manage a diverse team of IT Management Professionals and their teams, which are responsible for multiple areas of the Software Development Lifecyle, such as QA, DevOps, Development, Support and more.

- Provide professional development and mentorship to managers and team members.

- Human Resource contributions associated with the team, including recruiting, hiring, performance evaluation, and coaching.

- Establish people management and processes to attract and retain the best talent in the software and technology space.

- Establish a fun, creative and enjoyable environment balanced with strong collaboration and productivity.

- Conceives team structure and constantly seeks opportunities to adjust team structure to maximize agility and efficiency.

- Champion communications on technology and strategic initiatives.

- Collaborate and create routines with other managers/directors to ensure open communication and expectation accountability throughout our projects.

- Analyze and create project scope and milestones for several company initiatives.

- Present issues and risks, and their business impact to management in a timely manner with proposed mitigation. Actively seeks and removes impediments to team success regardless of where they originate.

- Lead multiple technical solution implementations simultaneously and provide key technical and solution architecture for review.

- Continuously improves software development productivity, quality, predictability, and team morale.

- Support the entire application lifecycle concept, design, test, release, and support.

- Be a team player and strong problem-solver to work with a diverse team.

Job Requirements

- Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience

- Fluent in English, with excellent oral and written communication skills

- 10+ years of Leadership experience in Software Development and Software Development Teams

- 5+ years of experience leading and collaborating with remote teams/management

- 3+ years of experience with Cloud Computing

- Proven ability to lead Development Management teams and advance software development practices

- Expertise in Agile Project Management Methodologies, such as KANBAN/SCRUM

- Expertise in Test Driven Development, OOP, Asynchronous Programming, DevOps concepts as well as the complete Software Development Life Cycle.

- Experience in project management tools such as Jira and/or OmniPlan

- Experience deploying and scaling applications on the cloud

- (Desirable) Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

- (Desirable) Knowledge and experience in Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/CD and more)